LashkarLashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous). United States Departmentof State, April 2001. Description The LT is the armed wing ...www.publicfigure.com/lashkar.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

ST LOUIS DISPATCH Article Snippet: "Ismael Royer, 30, grew up in St. Louis, attended Parkway South High School. Converted to Islam while in St. Louis. Said he fought with the Bosnian Army in the mid-1990s along with leaders of the group now known as Lashka-e-Taiba, the Pakistani group fighting with Hindus over control of Kashmir. Royer said he worked for the group before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The U.S. government declared Lashka-e-Taiba a terrorst group in December 2001."

"RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY Transcript: Show #310 November 5, 1999 BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Coming up, in the aftermath of the Egypt Air disaster, how Muslims deal with death and mourning. Also, on the 50th anniversary of the National Council of Churches, the organization searches for its identity and its future. And what's required of a Catholic university to remain true to its origins?" ...

"BOB ABERNETHY: The U.S. Catholic Bishops are accusing Israel of bowing to what they call extremist demands by Muslims. Israel had agreed to the construction of a mosque in Nazareth, the town where Jesus grew up. There've been ongoing conflicts between Muslims and Christians over a plot of land adjacent to the Church of the Annunciation. Muslims want to build a mosque there, and Christians want to build a tourist plaza for millennium pilgrims. The bishops urged President Clinton to oppose the mosque during the Middle East peace summit in Oslo this past week. A White House spokesman told us Mr. Clinton did not raise the issue, but declined to elaborate. BOB ABERNETHY: This week, as their families mourned the loss of all 217 people aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, there were special prayer services in many countries. Some of the dead were Christians and Jews; most were Muslims. We visited Dar al-Hijrah Mosque, the largest in the Washington, DC, area, to talk with some of the worshippers there about Muslim beliefs on death and mourning. Mr. SHAKER ELSAYED: Islam is one of those religions that believe that this life is something like a bridge to the hereafter. In the hereafter, Muslims are told, they will meet God; they will be with the prophets; they will be with the good people, if they live up to their religion. Mr. CALIPH BASHA: And if you are a good person and you've done some good deeds, we believe that when you die, hopefully, you have a good chance of making it to paradise. But when -- on the flip side of that, you know, if you're not -- if you don't do righteous deeds or if you're a bad person, then when you die, I mean, you're like, we -- you know -- you're going to hell." http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/310.html

This is the same group to which the Australian, Hicks, had trained with. He was later captured in Afghanistan.

From Islamonline:

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Elsewhere, last week, Australian officials said they captured a 26-year-old Australian fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Muslim man, from Adelaide in South Australia, was seized by the Northern Alliance.

Attorney-General Daryl Williams said Canberra had been advised the man was in good health, but would not disclose where he was being detained and said his identity was being withheld to protect his family.

He said there was a possibility of charges against the man under Australian law, but declined to canvass what they might be, reported AFP.

The Australian had also fought with Muslim forces in the former Yugoslavia before traveling in November 1999 to Pakistan, where officials say he trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group active in the liberation of Kashmir. He went to Afghanistan the following year.

While reporting the Red Fort attack on December 22, 2000, sections of the foreign media described the Lashkar as a Kashmiri militant organisation. It is not. It is a Pakistani organisation based in Pakistan and operating from there. It is a member of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front For Jihad Against the US and Israel. The wrong perceptions abroad about this organisation need to be corrected vigorously. - Source : "Lashkar e Taiba: A Backgrounder," by B.Raman, Sapra India aticle, http://www.subcontinent.com/sapra/terrorism/terrorism20001227a.html. , Date: 27 December 2000

It's one of those organizations which Pakistan knows is a threat to it if allowed to have a free reign in Pakistan (it's declared that Pakistan's government is not "truly islamic"), but one which Pakistan's more aggressive elements considered to be useful enough against India to be worth the risk to themselves.

US DOJ.gov/usao/vae: "This month's Press Releases": "Lashker-e-Taiba 06/27/03: Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Christopher Wray, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Alice Fisher, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice Criminal Division and Michael Rolince, Acting Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office announced today the arrest of eight individuals who have been indicted on conspiracy, firearms and other charges for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to train and participate in jihad in Kashmir... Press Release... Indictment..."

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